Mr Elwyn W. Hamley (Civil and Environmental Engineering 1949)

Provided by Mr Jerry Hamley

After leaving university my father spent his National service in the RAF, being responsible for engineering maintenance of military airfields, mostly in Northern Germany. After this he joined Fawcetts (I think that is how it is spelt) for two years. During this time he lived and worked on the North Wales Coast, spending his time on a major sea defence project. To his dying day he always claimed that whenever torrential rain caused flooding in the area the one portion which never flooded was the one he worked upon!

Following this he joined Mouchel and partners (as it was then) in London, as a consulting structural civil engineer, where he remained for the rest of his career. He worked on a number of high profile infrastucture projects, and latterly was one of the leading lights in the International division of the company. A renowned expert on the design of storage facilities for grains and other crops, he spent significant time visiting developing countries advising on World bank funded aid programmes. As he explained on more than one occasion, there was always something interesting going on. He retired after this interesting and varied career in 1989 and lived in East Devon, but after this he was often asked to give talks to local clubs and schools about some of the places he had visited, all these illustrated by the of excellent photographs he took.